said this on Johnny Carson back in 1985! It's remarkable to me how clear a vision of the future Sagan was able to project. Almost eerily accurate, no?
"I have a foreboding of an America - in my children and grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when virtually all manufacturing industry has slipped away to other countries ; when awesome tech power is concentrated in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowingly question those in authority.. nervously clutching our crystals and consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide without noticing back into superstition and darkness."
"I have a foreboding of an America - in my children and grandchildren's time - when the United States is a service and information economy; when virtually all manufacturing industry has slipped away to other countries ; when awesome tech power is concentrated in the hands of a very few, and no one representing the public interest can even grasp the issues; when the people have lost the ability to set their own agendas or knowingly question those in authority.. nervously clutching our crystals and consulting our horoscopes, our critical faculties in decline, unable to distinguish between what feels good and what's true, we slide without noticing back into superstition and darkness."
